Date: 1792, 1810
"'Oh! London! what calamities I see, / 'In my mind's eye," whene'er I think on thee!"
preview | full record— Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
Date: 1793, 1806
The "eye of Reason" may "cloudless shine"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)
Date: 1796
"By force the thirst of weakly sense is cloyed / Silent attend the frown, the gaze, the smile, / To grasp far objects with incessant toil; / So play life's springs with energy, and try / The unceasing thirst of knowledge to supply."
preview | full record— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)
Date: 1796
"Thus Books are intellectual Aliment drest / For every appetite of every guest."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: 1796
"Or let two words, in my mind's eye, / Unite more close, than You, and I."
preview | full record— Bishop, Samuel (1731-1795)
Date: w. September 1794, 1797
"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1797
"Grief, the most fatal of the heart's diseases, / Soon teaches, who it fastens on, to die."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1798
"Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1798
"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1800
"Teach thou my hand, with mutual love, to trace / His mind, as perfect as thy lines his face!"
preview | full record— Hayley, William (1745-1820)